About six weeks ago, I had the privilege of chairing one of the series of āFeeding the Earthā webinars hosted by Thinking Faith Network, exploring contemporary research into food security from a āvaluesā perspective. The opening talk, given by Dr Yoseph Araya of the Open University, was an introduction to Read more
Joost Opschoor writes about the recent Catalysing Postgraduate Ministry conference. On 15-17 March 2019, about ten invited delegations of academics, postgrads and postgraduate ministry leaders gathered in New College, Oxford for the firstĀ Catalysing Postgraduate Ministry conference organised by theĀ Oxford PastorateĀ as a spin-off of theĀ Developing a Christian MindĀ conference. Both conferences took Read more
Last weekend in Oxford saw the second of this year’s Developing a Christian Mind conferences – an annual pair of events inviting postgraduate students to consider and deepen the intersection of their academic work with Christian faith. ‘Seeking Wisdom’ is split into multiple disciplinary streams (this year, Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Read more
In the third and final post on the talks fromĀ Transforming the Mind 2017Ā (you can also read the first and second posts), I’ll summarize the talk thatĀ Joanna Collicutt gave. She drew on her expertise in both psychology and theology to help us consider how we can be Christ-like in the university, Read more
Following on from theĀ first post a few weeks ago, here’s the second of three posts summarizing the talks fromĀ Transforming the Mind 2017. This week we’re looking atĀ Mike Clifford’s talk, which took the experience of Daniel and his friends in Babylon as the starting point. Daniel was a young man who Read more
It is now becoming a tradition that each year I write up the talks from theĀ Transforming the Mind conferenceĀ so a larger group of people can benefit from them. This year, we had three speakers. Today I’ll tell you about the final talk of the conference, and there will be two Read more
Last week, I discussed the first half of a talk Biblical scholar and philosopher Richard Middleton gave for FiSch a few weeks ago. I will pick up where we left off. This week I’ve included quite a few Biblical references, because his talk linked a lot of concepts and elements Read more
A few weeks ago, Biblical scholar and philosopherĀ Richard MiddletonĀ visited FiSch as part of a UK tour. This got me very excited, as I’ve read some of his work and found it very helpful, and Anthony and I managed to go along to a talk in Durham and two in Leeds. Read more
In the week after Easter I had the privilege of travelling to the Republic of Macedonia to take part in a conference on ‘The Bible and Literature’. It was co-hosted by the Macedonian Academy of the Sciences and Arts – a research university in the capital city of Skopje – Read more
A guest post from David Parry. A report from the Christian Literary Studies Group Annual Conference The Christian Literary Studies Group gathered at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on Saturday 5th November for our annual day conference, which this year had the theme āShaping Ends: Aspects of Apocalypseā. Current world events were Read more